Postage Stamps Quotes

• Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.

  Josh Billings

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter.

  Diane Lane

  Hands, Letters, Mail

  "Richard Gere and Diane Lane interview – NIGHTS IN RODANTHE". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. September 26, 2008.

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• Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.

  William Butler Yeats

  Thinking, Swag, Design

  Speech at Seanad Éireann (Irish Free Senate) on the Coinage Bill, March 03, 1926.

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• Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap

  George Bernard Shaw

  Stamps, Objects, Delivering

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• Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

  Josh Billings

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

  Napoleon Hill

  Motivational, Perseverance, Jobs

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.70, Penguin

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• The President of today is just the postage stamp of tomorrow.

  Gracie Allen

  Justice, President, Today

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• Why do they put pictures of criminals up in the Post Office? What are we supposed to do, write to them? Why don't they just put their pictures on the postage stamps so the postmen can look for them while they deliver the mail?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Writing, Humor

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• I should be a postage stamp. That’s the only way I’ll ever get licked!

  Muhammad Ali

  Boxing, Way, Should

  Twitter post from Oct 04, 2010

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• All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Witty, Humorous, Science

  Quoted in J. B. Birks, Rutherford at Manchester (1962)

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• I know why the caged bird sings.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Children, Book

  Title of book (1969), taken from the last line of "Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dunbar in Lyrics of Hearthside (1899). Cf. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1979) 567:10

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• I dream that my face appears on a postage stamp.

  John Cheever

  Dream, Faces, Fame

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• I should be a postage stamp, because that's the only way I'll ever get licked. I'm beautiful. I'm fast. I'm so mean I make medicine sick. I can't possibly be beat.

  Muhammad Ali

  Beautiful, Mean, Medicine

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• Ports are necessities, like postage stamps or soap, but they seldom seem to care what impressions they make.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Sailing, Care, Soap

  Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “Poems”, p.88, Macmillan

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• The social or economic structure of the ideal state is of little concern to me. My desires are modest. Portraits of the head of the government should not exceed a postage stamp in size. No torture and no executions. No music, except coming through earphones, or played in theaters. Freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of art.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Government, Freedom Of Speech

  Interview with Alvin Toffler, reprints.longform.org. January 1964.

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• There's nothing sadder to me than associations held together by nothing but the glue of postage stamps. If you can't see or hear or touch a man, it's best to let him go.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Together, Glue

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.365, Penguin

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• Paint with whatever material you please - with pipes, postage stamps, postcards or playing cards, painted paper, or newspapers.

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Cards, Paper, Paint

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• the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring - or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps - lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them.

  Agnes Repplier

  Lying, Book, Looks

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• Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Drinking, Commitment, Dope

  "Steal This Book". Book by Abbie Hoffman. Introduction, p. V, 1971.

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• With full responsibility for my words as a professional biologist, I do not hesitate to say that all existing and genuine knowledge about the way in which the physical characteristics of human communities are related to their cultural capabilities can be written on the back of a postage stamp.

  Lancelot Hogben

  Knowledge, Responsibility, Science

  Lancelot Thomas Hogben (1940). “Dangerous Thoughts”

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• I never needed Panavision and stereophonic sound to woo the world. I did it in black and white on a screen the size of a postage stamp. Honey, that's talent.

  Mae West

  Black And White, Sound, World

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• I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it.

  William Faulkner

  Writing, Long, Littles

  Francis Lee Utley, William Faulkner, Lynn Z. Bloom, Arthur F. Kinney (1964). “Bear, man, & God: seven approaches to William Faulkner's The bear”

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• Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power. We are not interested in the greening of Amerika except for the grass that will cover its grave.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Drinking, Commitment, Dope

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• He picked the postage stamp over the wall with aplomb.

  Tim Flowers

  Football, Wall, Stamps

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• The Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov once said: In a Democracy, portraits of a nation's leader should never exceed the size of a postage stamp. That won't happen so quickly in Russia.

  Vladimir Sorokin

  Russia, Leader, Democracy

  "Russia Is Slipping Back into an Authoritarian Empire". Interview with Martin Doerry and Matthias Schepp, www.spiegel.de. February 2, 2007.

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